Troubleshooting Activity, Steps, & Calories

How Does Oura Measure Activity


To improve the accuracy of your activity tracking, make sure the sensor bumps of your ring are on the palm side of your finger. For non-step-based activities that are more difficult to measure (e.g., yoga), manually adding your activity improves can positively impact your Activity Score.

On the Oura app for iOS, you have the option to import your workouts from Health and with Android, you can import workouts from Google Fit.

How Are METs Used For Calculating Activity / Calories? 



For example:

- 30 min x brisk walking (MET value=3) = 90 MET minutes

- 30 min x jogging (MET value=7) = 210 MET minutes

How Does Oura Calculate Steps? 

The Oura ring registers all your daily movements and their intensities, from light housework to heavy workouts. From the gathered data, Oura’s activity algorithms are fine-tuned to recognize steps from the rest of your daily movement. Oura is able to identify step patterns within a very small window of time (30 seconds) and with a high level of precision from your finger. Any non-step movement is still captured in your total activity.


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